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Andbox is a major player in the growing esports industry as the company behind the Call of Duty League’s New York Subliners and the Overwatch League’s New York Excelsior—both teams in prominent franchised leagues. Now the company is set to enter the NFT space. Today, Andbox announced a partnership with Moonwalk, a blockchain startup that …

Call of Duty Esports Team Owner Andbox to Launch NFTs That Unlock Perks for Fans Leer más »

Investors claim that the creators of a newly-launched dog coin project defrauded them out of a combined total of $60 million in ETH after the funds vanished from the project’s liquidity pool. AnubisDAO, which launched on Thursday, touted itself as a fork of OlympusDAO–a decentralized reserve currency backed by bonds sales and liquidity provider fees.  …

AnubisDAO Investors Lose $60 Million in Alleged Rug Pull Leer más »

On Thursday, Oculus’s Chief Technology Officer John Carmack said during a live keynote speech about Facebook’s new metaverse that “it’s unlikely we’re going to be in the completely open crypto world of things.”  Earlier that day, Facebook rebranded itself as ‘Meta’, signaling its intention to go all in on the metaverse. Under the new ‘Meta’ …

Oculus CTO: ‘Unlikely’ that Meta Will Totally Embrace Crypto Leer más »

Today, Decrypt did something we’ve never done before: published an original news story that will also run on multiple other sites.  The story, which hits on multiple hot-button issues in the crypto world—NFTs, DAOs, and crypto lobbying efforts in D.C.—marks the launch of PubDAO, a new media DAO we’ve been building out behind the scenes …

Introducing PubDAO, a Decentralized Crypto News Wire Leer más »

The Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania is launching an executive education program in blockchain and, fittingly enough, will let students pay for it in crypto—making it just the second American college to accept Bitcoin. Starting today, students will be able to choose crypto from a tuition payment menu that also includes PayPal …

Wharton Business School to Accept Tuition Payment in Bitcoin, Ethereum Leer más »

Steam is the largest digital marketplace for PC games, but it won’t be where you find blockchain-based games with NFT assets or cryptocurrency integration right now. Recently, the marketplace banned any games with NFT or crypto elements—but a number of crypto game developers and Web3 advocates are now pushing back against the decision. Today, digital …

Crypto Advocates Protest ‘Gatekeeper’ Valve’s NFT Game Ban on Steam Leer más »

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady threw his 600th touchdown pass on Sunday, but his tight end unwittingly tossed the historical game ball to a fan in the stands—meaning team officials had to go retrieve it. The ball recipient, a Bucs fan named Byron Kennedy, promptly gave the ball back. But Brady nonetheless offered him …

Tom Brady Gives Bitcoin to Fan for Return of TD Ball, Fan Asks for Round of Golf Leer más »

As issues with cyber safety and data leaks spread, a much-hyped new crypto project from Y Combinator founder Sam Altman aims to mitigate scams and breaches caused by bots and bad actors by scanning your eyeballs and awarding you crypto. Worldcoin, which already touts a $1 billion valuation, aims to onboard more people into crypto …

Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman’s Worldcoin: ‘Don’t Catalogue Eyeballs’ Leer más »

Popular online discussion community Reddit is planning to build its own platform for users to buy and sell NFTs, according to a job listing posted by the company. Reddit is looking to hire a “Senior Backend Engineer, NFT Platform,” and the job listing isn’t ambiguous about the firm’s plans. According to the posting, the ideal …

Reddit Building NFT Marketplace to Join Ethereum Token Rewards Leer más »

Fractional shares in a Doge meme are now collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The original image of Doge, the Shiba Inu dog turned Dogecoin mascot, was turned into an NFT (a type of token that functions like a digital deed of ownership) and sold for $4 million in June.  Earlier this week, it’s …

Fractional Shares in Doge NFT Hit $300 Million Valuation Leer más »